55-year-old software developer Jim Boysen suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment and 15 hours and around a dozen docs and 40 health care workers later, he was given a skull-scalp transplant from a human donor. That's from a real person - not an artificial implant or a simple bone graft...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
First Skull and Scalp Transplant Completed in Texas
Score another for transplant surgery!
55-year-old software developer Jim Boysen suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment and 15 hours and around a dozen docs and 40 health care workers later, he was given a skull-scalp transplant from a human donor. That's from a real person - not an artificial implant or a simple bone graft...
55-year-old software developer Jim Boysen suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment and 15 hours and around a dozen docs and 40 health care workers later, he was given a skull-scalp transplant from a human donor. That's from a real person - not an artificial implant or a simple bone graft...
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